This film is part of the 'Martin Scorsese Curates' season at BFI Southbank. The movie is also being shown at the cinema on February 25th. Full details here.
BFI introduction:
From the brief risqué interlude before the Production Code made Hollywood movies squeaky clean comes this serio-comic chronicle of a Cuban clip joint, where the girls dream of a better life as their pimps keep them earning. An always entertaining amalgam of melodrama, vaudevillian knockabout and bouncy trad jazz – with director Garnett’s serpentine tracking shots debunking early sound cinema’s static reputation.
Here (and above) is an extract.
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